Warm Bodies

I loved this book. It was a glorious combination of horror-genre and romance, with normal people (normal characteristics I mean, because Zombies aren't themselves part of everyday life) as the main characters. The characters were all very easy to connect to, for the most part, and it was an easy read. I couldn't put it down. Well, I could literaly put it down, but I didn't, it was that good. I read the entire book in single day, no doubt missing out on whatever important thing was happening out in the real world.
I'm not ashamed to say that I began reading this book because of the movie that will be hitting theatres soon, and after reading Warm Bodies, I realized that, like all movies made from books, there will be some drastic differences between the two. I think it will be worth it though.
Isaac Marion intertwined romance with inner teen angst, and a dash of zombie-apocolypse, and came out with a beautifully written book with a strong motif of hope and desperation and an underlying/overlying(I'ts everywhere, who am I kidding?) of not giving up despite any bad situation. I recommend highly. ( )

Good for a love story zombie book, but feels like the ending just kind of happens... not organically. Almost as if "stuffs changing and.... we're done." ( )

teen/adult zombie love story. The ending was a bit weak, and miraculous, but what do you expect? I did enjoy the author's imagery and descriptions (though it was a little bit odd coming from the man-of-few-words narrator) and feel better having read it before I see the movie (which had a much longer hold queue at my library anyway). ( )

DNF (I browsed the rest of it to find out the ending).

Slow start. Good idea and pretty decent execution, but it's hard to build sympathy and maintain reader interest for a "limited" main character like a true mindless zombie. A writer should not choose an inherently uninteresting character as the main character. Also, it's more or a romance than horror, so it is somewhat mislabeled. The reader's expectations aren't matched.

Interesting & engaging. Comparisons to Twilight are inevitable I suppose, but in regards to that for me, it just made me wonder - is the girl ever the monster in these pairings? I can't think of any stories where that's the case. ( )